QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL IN INDIA: ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

Critical Evaluation of the Constitutional Provisions and Educational System
“A man without education is a building without the foundation.”
Introduction
All the children should be given free and compulsory elementary education from the age of six to fourteen years. This was the only constitutional aim when Our Constitution of India was adopted in 1950 that to achieve Universalization in Elementary Education for all the Children in next 10 years. But the situation seems to be different after 65 years of the adoption as only 74.04% of the citizens are literate and still 33 crore citizens of our nation are illiterate and lack basic education and most of them are females only, as sex role stereotypes are present in the society that stops them to give basic education to the females. Though many steps and movements were taken by the government of India to improve the current situation but nothing seems to have an effective effect on the literacy rate. In just one year i.e. from 1950-51, 210 thousand Primary and 14 thousand Upper Primary Schools were setup. With recent 700 Universities more than 35,000 Colleges who are enrolling more than 20 million students each year, still India is unable to achieve its main aim. Though many amendments were done in the Constitution itself to make the educational system more elaborative and simple but the complexity with which the Indian Education system is attached to can never